pdftex – A TeX extension for direct creation of PDF

An ex­ten­sion of TeX which can be con­fig­ured to di­rectly gen­er­ate
PDF doc­u­ments in­stead of DVI. All cur­rent free TeX dis­tri­bu­tions
in­clud­ing TeX Live,
MacTeX and
MiKTeX in­clude pdfTeX (Plain TeX) and
pdfLaTeX (LaTeX). ConTeXt was
orig­i­nally de­signed around use of pdfTeX, though nowa­days it is
fo­cused on LuaTeX).